On 1/7/19 3:37 PM, Ben Koenig wrote:
Wait a second.... why is nvidia-settings trying to create an xorg.conf
file? I thought the program was nvidia-xconfig ..
It occurred to me that if I have a correct nVidia setup on my Ubuntu
machine, which has a very similar monitor setup, I could compare the
xorg.config files with each other and maybe edit the one on the
Slackware machine to match as appropriate. With the exception of the
nVidia model, the two files are identical. On the Ubuntu machine I have
a GeForce 210.
I hadn't heard of nvidia-xconfig, so I ran it.
root@ENU-2:/etc/X11# nvidia-xconfig
Using X configuration file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf".
Backed up file '/etc/X11/xorg.conf' as
'/etc/X11/xorg.conf.nvidia-xconfig-original'
Backed up file '/etc/X11/xorg.conf' as '/etc/X11/xorg.conf.backup'
New X configuration file written to '/etc/X11/xorg.conf'
root@ENU-2:/etc/X11#
When I log out I'm back at run level 3. I run startx again and it comes
up with mirrored screens. I run nvidia-settings from the menu and I can
uncover the smaller screen, put it to the left, set it as the primary
display, click apply, and I get what I want. The smaller monitor on the
left with the menu bar at the top and the launcher bar at the bottom,
and the larger monitor to the right with nothing but wallpaper. I can't
save the configuration from this invocation, so I quit. open a terminal,
log in as root, and it still shows the settings I set up as rsteff. I
can save to xorg.conf. I log out, log back in, and the setting are back
to mirrored, with the menu and launch bars back on the right hand monitor.
I thought xorg.conf is where those settings were being stored. Is there
somewhere else I need to be looking?
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Regards,
Dick Steffens
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